Janelle Crawford-Hine
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Janelle Crawford-Hine (she/her) is an illustrator and printmaker based in Kansas City. Her work focuses on themes of connectivity, exploring connection to family, self, and the natural world. She is interested in the many ways that we assign value to ourselves, each other, and the world around us. Her work seeks to create space for the viewer to question their preconceived understandings of value and deepen these relationships through joy, wonder, and love.
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She received her BFA in illustration from the Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design and a master’s degree in Montessori education. Her work has been shown in Woman Made’s online show “Tickled Pink”, “stArt The Conversation” art and mental health show for Wyandotte Behavioral Health, “Unfolded” at the Art School Gallery in Lee's Summit, Missouri, and feature in Pink Disco, an online literary magazine. She was a 2023 Print Day in May winner. She has shown in many art festivals, including Lawrence Art in the Park, Westport Art Fair, and received a Merit Award at the Smoky Hill River Festival. She is currently working on a series exploring the tallgrass prairie from the perspective of the smallest animals that inhabit it and a children's book set in the Kansas prairie at sunset.

The Hidden Prairie
Acrylic Monoprints and Linoleum Cuts
Bobwhite Quail

The Hidden Prairie series celebrates the biodiversity of the Tallgrass Prairie of North America. This series questions our connection to the natural world and how we relate to our more than human neighbors. Prairies have always been an incredibly diverse ecosystem and yet a deeply misunderstood landscape in the human mind. They are often perceived as barren and inhospitable. But in these trying times of climate change research is showing that the prairie provides not only for our more than human kin but also acts as a carbon sink, sequestering carbon in the soil and aiding in water retention in frequently arid areas of the plains. If we don't protect this ecosystem, what will be left?
Political Activism
Linoleum Cuts
Black Lives Matter

During the lockdown and the political movement of 2020 Janelle began a series of linoleumcuts focused on political commentary and charitable giving to organizations focused on community aid in the form of rent assistance and diversity in the form of grants for black-owned buisnesses.
Body Positivity
Linoleum Cuts and Watercolor
Ramen Nymph

Janelle makes work that speaks to people as they are and not as an ideal. Our bodies allow us to enjoy our lives and are the vessels that carry and sustain us. She shows that releasing shame is a deeply important step on the journey to self-love. Her pregnancy series evokes many different iterations of representation as it seeks to celebrate many different authentic experiences of pregnancy while her food nymphs whimsically express the ecstacy of living in different body types.
Children’s Illustration
Linoleum Cuts and Watercolor
Moon Friends

Janelle has always enjoyed making images for children that are soft, simple, and emotionally authentic. Whether it is the magic and imagination of spending time with a friend in Moon Friends, or the warmth and comfort of being held in relationship to parents and siblings, Janelle always looks to relate directly to the emotions of children and the child within each adult.
Animal Prints
Linoleum Cuts
Spring

Janelle Crawford-Hine has always been fascinated by animals, how they communicate, their relationships to each other, humans, and the earth. Through these more-than-human relationships, we can see what things are truly important and experience pleasures that we may struggle to allow ourselves to experience.
Conversations with the Inner Self
Linoleum Cuts
The Moon

Conversations with the inner self can be quite difficult. Janelle uses the lens of the tarot deck to examine and call to action. Each piece evokes new reflections and asks the viewer and the audience to reflect inward as they strive for inner growth. The Moon asks the viewer to look within and let go of what is not serving while The Sun asks what energy they would like to see grow and flourish in their life. Persephone gazes directly at the viewer, inviting them to go into their subconscious and find the things that we hide from ourselves while her Pandemic Portrait explores the hidden subconscious anxiety that wound its way through every moment of her pandemic lockdown experience. Finally, The Fool was created as an expression of Janelle’s own healing journey coming out of the pandemic, asking the viewer to take big chances and trust that things will work out as they are meant to. Most recently, Janelle created The Star as a self-portrait of her own journey to self-acceptance.

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